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If our ratio is 3 support soldiers for every combat soldier does anyone know what there ratio is? I imagine it is a lot higher. Im sure the extra numbers in whatever capacity they are present will be welcomed by everyone (With exception to the Taliban maybe).

Given the bitterness in the GOP over their defeat, if he had it'd have been all over the Fox network in seconds.

Once during a fever I remembered that when a European is dying, there is usually some sort of ceremony in which he asks the pardon of others and pardons them. I have a great many enemies, and I thought, what should my answer be if some modernized persons should ask me my views on this? After considering it, I decided: Let them go on hating me. I shall not forgive a single one of them.

LE

If our ratio is 3 support soldiers for every combat soldier does anyone know what there ratio is? I imagine it is a lot higher. Im sure the extra numbers in whatever capacity they are present will be welcomed by everyone (With exception to the Taliban maybe).

Old-Salt

If our ratio is 3 support soldiers for every combat soldier does anyone know what there ratio is? I imagine it is a lot higher. Im sure the extra numbers in whatever capacity they are present will be welcomed by everyone (With exception to the Taliban maybe).

I think our Combat to Support ratio would actually be closer to 1:4 these days and the US Army is around 1:12. The latter figure came to me from a US colleague in Iraq in 2006 and I presume he meant just the Army and not the entire military.

i would agree if the defence spending reshuffle didnt happen pretty much as soon as he got voted in, and was worked on by the republican defence sec, and of course obama hasnt actually announced the troops yet and might do some time next week so the timings a bit off there as well

Or possibly his first priority was the domestic issue which was the mainstay of his manifesto and he was giving that his attention? Wouldn't be the first time a politician has put internal politics ahead of international strategy.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Once during a fever I remembered that when a European is dying, there is usually some sort of ceremony in which he asks the pardon of others and pardons them. I have a great many enemies, and I thought, what should my answer be if some modernized persons should ask me my views on this? After considering it, I decided: Let them go on hating me. I shall not forgive a single one of them.